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Kifah Hanna
Trinity College
Occupation
Associate Professor
Contact
Trinity College
300 Summit Street
Hartford CT 06106
United States
Discipline
Literature
Sub Areas
Comparative
Gender/Women's Studies
Identity/Representation
Middle East/Near East Studies
Nationalism
Arabic
Minorities
Modern
Translation
Queer/LGBT Studies
19th-21st Centuries
Geographic Areas of Interest
All Middle East
Lebanon
Palestine
Specialties
Feminism & Natlsm In Lit Of Contemp Levant Writers
Gender & Sexuality
Arab LGBTQ
Languages
Arabic (native)
English (fluent)
French (intermediate)
Education
PhD | 2010 | Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies | The University of Edinburgh
MA | 2003 | Fac of Arts | U of Edinburgh
BA | 1999 | English | U of Homs, Syria
Abstracts
Arab Women–Gay Men: The Construction of Sexual Minorities in the Mashriq Masculinities--Femininities: the De- Engendering of (Homo)Sexual Identity in Lebanon Returning to the Roots: Desire in Lebanese War Literature Narrating Desire: Sexuality and Belonging in Hoda Barakat’s War Literature Writing the Body in Lebanese War Literature